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Age Cohort Arrest Rates, 1970-1980 (ICPSR 8261)

Principal Investigator(s):
Greenberg, David F.

Summary:

The data for this collection were gathered from the 1970 and
1980 Censuses and the Uniform Crime Reports for 1970 through 1980. The
unit of analysis in this data collection is cities. Included are
population totals by age group and arrest data for selected crimes by
age group for Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado,
Knoxville, Tennessee, San Jose, California, Spokane, Washington, and
Tucson, Arizona. Population data by sex and age for all cities are
contained in Part 4. The 123 variables provide data by age categories
ranging from age 5 to age 69. Part 1, the arrest file for Atlanta and
Chicago, provides arrest data for 1970 to 1980 by sex and age, ranging
from age 10 and under to age 65 and over. The arrest data for other
cities span two data files. Part 2 includes arrest data by sex for ages
15 to 24 for the years 1970 to 1980. Part 3 provides arrest data for
ages 25 to 65 and over for the years 1970, 1975, and 1980. Arrest data
are collected for the following crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery,
aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, other
assaults, arson, forgery, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property,
vandalism, weapons, prostitution, other sex offenses, opium abuse,
marijuana abuse, gambling, family offenses, drunk driving, liquor law
violations, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and all other
offenses combined.

The data for this collection were gathered from the 1970 and
1980 Censuses and the Uniform Crime Reports for 1970 through 1980. The
unit of analysis in this data collection is cities. Included are
population totals by age group and arrest data for selected crimes by
age group for Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado,
Knoxville, Tennessee, San Jose, California, Spokane, Washington, and
Tucson, Arizona. Population data by sex and age for all cities are
contained in Part 4. The 123 variables provide data by age categories
ranging from age 5 to age 69. Part 1, the arrest file for Atlanta and
Chicago, provides arrest data for 1970 to 1980 by sex and age, ranging
from age 10 and under to age 65 and over. The arrest data for other
cities span two data files. Part 2 includes arrest data by sex for ages
15 to 24 for the years 1970 to 1980. Part 3 provides arrest data for
ages 25 to 65 and over for the years 1970, 1975, and 1980. Arrest data
are collected for the following crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery,
aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, other
assaults, arson, forgery, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property,
vandalism, weapons, prostitution, other sex offenses, opium abuse,
marijuana abuse, gambling, family offenses, drunk driving, liquor law
violations, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and all other
offenses combined.

Access Notes

One or more data files in this study are set up in a non-standard format, such as card image format. Users
may need help converting these files before they can be used for analysis.

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Study Description

Citation

Greenberg, David F. AGE COHORT ARREST RATES, 1970-1980. ICPSR version. New York, NY: New York University [producer], 1984. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08261.v1

The data collection as received from the principal
investigator contained 14 data files. These files were reformatted and
combined into four data files by ICPSR.

Methodology

Data Source:

Arrest data were gathered from the Uniform Crime Reports
from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The population data were
gathered from the United States Census Bureau.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1985-03-18

Version History:

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

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